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1) the expression "Municipal Commissioner" means a body of Municipal Com- missioners or a Municipal Committee constituted under the provisions of any enactment for the time being in force: "parent."
(2) "parent" means the father of a legitimate child and the mother of an illegitimate child: "guardian."
(3) "guardian" includes any person who has .accepted or assumed the care or custody of: any child: "unprotected child."
(4) "unprotected child" means a child who has not been protected from small-pox by having had that disease either naturally or by inoculation, or by having been successfully vaccinated, and who has not been certified under this Act to be insusceptible to vaccination: "inoculation."
(5) "inoculation" means any operation performed with the object of producing the disease of small-pox in any person by means of various matter: "vaccination-circle."
(6) "vaccination-circle" means one of parts into which a municipality or cantonment has been divided under this Act for the performance of vaccination: "vaccinator."
(7) "vaccinator" means any vaccinator appointed under this Act to perform the operation of vaccination. Or any; private person authorized4[* * *] in any manner hereinafter provided to perform the same operation; and includes a "Superintendent of vaccination": "vaccination-season."
(8) "vaccination season" means the period from time to time fixed by the5[State Government] for any local area under its administration by notification in the Official Gazette, during which alone vaccination may be performed under this Act.